12/13/10 Site search Web search EDITORIAL Budgeted-Fund Rules Should Enhance Fulfillment Lower Mississippi River dredging operations are deteriorating these days. The government..., apparently, is stuck on tilt when it comes to adjusting budgetary rules in order to allow funds to fulfill the purpose for which they are being budgeted. The Mississippi River... on or be based on river conditions during normal years, there hasn t been a normal year on the Lower Mississippi in five years. For example, there was early high water last year, and five...

981 at Cairo, Ill., and along the Upper Mississippi River to Chester, Ill., at Mile 109. Because of the differences in the flow and characteristics of the Ohio and Mississippi..., the Chippewa maintains approximately 132 buoys and 14 shoreside aids, and along the Upper Mississippi River portion, they service approximately 450 buoys and 67 shoreside aids. The buoy barge... a private barge dock at Mile 326 of the Upper Mississippi River at Quincy, Ill., on the disused site of a paper mill formerly owned by Celotex, and just north of Lock and Dam 21. The...

rivers navigation systems stand out as a major example. Soon-to-retire Sen. Christopher Kit Bond (R-Mo.) has said that if the earmark mechanism is shut down, it is doubtful that any... money will be directed to the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers modernization. Bond, who has been a longtime vociferous supporter of this project and navigation on the Missouri... the foolhardy practice of borrowing money we don t have to accomplish them. The Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers modernization project has been a long time in the making. It has been...